100 Reasons Why Your Body Is Amazing

100 Reasons Why Your Body Is Amazing

As the 2018 year progresses, it is always nice to reflect on the little miracles of everyday life… I have therefore decided to comprise a list of 100 reasons why I believe the human body to be one of the most amazing little machines ever constructed:

You body started as one single cell

Your body grew based on the information provided from 23 pairs of chromosomes

Each chromosome has 2 strands of DNA to create your entire genetic make-up

If you uncoiled all of the DNA in your body, it would stretch billions and billions of miles!

Half of these DNA genes focus on designing your brain while the other half design the rest of your body

Your brain began forming almost at the precise moment of your conception

Your teeth began growing approximately 6 months before you were born

While in utero, you had no air in your lungs and you were not breathing in the traditional sense

Your very first breath as a newborn was to help close the hole in your heart which, while in utero, ensured that air bypassed your lungs and went straight to your growing body

During a vaginal birth, a newborn has to do a lot of rotating, twisting, and bending to do in order to move through the birth canal

Your fingerprints developed approximately 6 months before you were born

Most likely, you were born with blue eyes until the presence of melanin decided their true colour later on

The ovum is the largest cell of the human body

The sperm is the smallest cell of the human body

Some of the reflexes with which you were born do not exist beyond the first few months of life

Babies are born with more bones than adults

If you aged as fast as you developed in utero, you would be a giant by the time you hit age 2!

Your nose can remember approximately 50,000 different smells

Your eye can detect approximately 10 million different colours

You have about 2,000 taste buds… each with the ability to detect different flavours and tastes

After eating too much, your hearing becomes less sharp

When you are afraid, your ears produce more earwax

When you hear a noise, your pupils dilate… even with small noises

Your brain is more active at night than during the day

Your feet have about 500,000 sweat glands that are able to produce about a pint of sweat in a single day

There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your body

Your liver has the ability to regenerate itself, even if 75% of it is removed!

Your skeleton renews itself approximately every 10 years

Your outer skin renews itself approximately every 27 days

You stomach lining replaces itself approximately every 3 to 5 days

Your taste buds are replaced every 10 to 14 days

Your eyelashes are replaced every 4 to 8 weeks

Your fingernails grow approximately one nanometer every second

Your fingernails grow 4x faster than your toe nails… and the nail of the middle finger is the fastest of them all!

Your facial hair grows faster than any other hair on your body

When you are awake, your brain produces enough electricity to power a light bulb

Your heartbeat can mimic the music you listen to… so listen wisely!

Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen you consume

Your body tissues respond, grow, and/or remodel according to the mechanical stresses and forces you gradually apply to them

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world

The skin cells in the vagina are the same as the skin cells in the mouth… but the vagina is cleaner!

Tension in the pelvic floor muscles can change the pitch and strength of your voice

You can survive 1-2 months without food

You can survive 10-11 days without sleep

You can survive 2-3 days without drinking water

Your pinky finger provides about 50% of your hand’s strength

Your pinky toe is essential for balance

Your hands and feet contain almost half of all the bones in your skeleton

The diameter of your spinal cord is smaller than the diameter of your aorta

The diameter of your aorta is about the same as the diameter of a regular garden hose

The structure of your brain changes when you learn something new

The structure of your brain changes during puberty

When your pelvic floor muscles work in close synergy with the diaphragm, pressure systems throughout all of your body cavities can be optimized and can actually reduce or eliminate headaches, random shoulder pain, pelvic pain, bloating, and ringing in the ears

Neurons continue to grow throughout your lifetime… so keep on learning new things!

You are about 1 cm taller in the morning than you are by the end of the day

The cornea of your eyes receives no blood supply as it is happy to take oxygen right from the air

About 80% of your body heat is lost through the head… so wear a hat when it’s cold outside!

You have at least 700 active enzymes in your body

If allowed to grow for an entire lifetime, your hair could be approximately 725 km long

Your hair grows twice as fast during an airplane flight

The chemical elements of your body equate to approximately $200.00

You spend about 10% of your waking life blinking

When a new mum breastfeeds, her brain structure changes to become more attuned to her child’s crying

Upon delivery and skin-to-skin contact, Oxytocin is released in a new mum’s brain which helps her to bond to her baby

The vagina has a pH of approximately 4.5… which is the same acidity level as beer!

The iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones came from the giant explosion we know as The Big Bang!

And my personal favourite… no matter how hard you look, you will NEVER find a single body quite like yours! Yours is wonderfully unique to you, and you alone! So treat your body with love and kindness, and it shall serve you well 🙂

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